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DIY: Design It Yourself - My new Unity watch

So, I've been a bit excited for the last week after discovering Unity Watches from Barcelona.
Before reading on, some of you may want to cut up your credit cards, if you find this as enticing as I did...

This allows you to choose from the range of case finishes, bezel finishes, dial, hands etc. I admit it's hard to come up with anything much better than Unity themselves, but I think I managed to? The results are shown below, I called it Caged BlackE (they seemingly randomly attached the E, it must be a Spanish thing...)

Unity assemble, pack and ship your watch so it arrives in 7 business days. I was skeptical, but they delivered to me in NL within the 7 days.

So, on to the watch I created. It's currently the only one like it in the world. If you want, you can pay 50% more on the purchase price and they will retire your design, so it is a completely unique one off. Otherwise, once you have designed yours, the site notifies you that someone has chosen this combination and design before.

Here's my watch.

The rather nice box -

And now the watch in the box with the 'credit card' warranty card

Let's dive in for a look at this beauty...

As you can see, black DLC case, bezel, case back and crown. Black screws for the "staples" (a new watch word on me!?)
You can see the clear inspiration from Panarai on the dial layout, but I think the overall similarity is just with the dial?

Here you can see the curve of the crystal a bit better

A side shot of the case and crystal

A case back shot with the Valanvron V24-2 - quite nicely finished and up there with my decorated 2824-2's...

Wrist shot

The full specification of my watch and serial, on the back of the warranty card, a nice touch

It's a very well finished watch and I like the quality of the DLC finish over PVD, very nice.
It's also very comfy and easy to read.

So, if you fancy something different, perhaps unique, for Glycine money, I'd check out Unity watches of Barcelona.
Also, Eduardo, the CEO of Unity was a pleasure to deal with and the customer service was excellent.
All in all, a good experience and I can recommend the finished product.

Thanks for posting this up, like your combination btw. I had some fun with the configurator too. Strangely, my selection came to €678 whereas some of the off-the-shelf designs are €800+, which is unusual for a custom jobbie but I wouldn't complain about that..!

For some reason, the riders or 'staples' reminded me of a certain Romaine Jerome model and that somehow ruined it for me, as I got a queasy feeling in my gut - not due to your watch, but because I was reminded of the RJ watches.

A totally unfair comparison and really not something, that should have reflected on your watch.

Congrats. Seems you are happy with your new watch - that is all that matters.

Wexford, any chance to have a lume shot? Interested on how black superluminova 'shines' :)

I tried that the other day when taking the shots, but it's somewhat beyond my Galaxy S3 camera and my skills as a photographer, apparently ;)
It's "dim" is the best way to describe it and fairly short lived, I'll do some more testing and report back.
If anyone has tips on how to take a dim lume shot with a camera phone, please let me know!?